Comments on: Blog Readability Levels http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/blog_reading_le.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:22:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Martin B. Tittle http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/blog_reading_le.html/comment-page-1#comment-51614 Martin B. Tittle Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:37:09 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/11/blog-readability-levels.html#comment-51614 The web site that Jason suggested is very interesting. URLs entered into the box at the bottom of that web page get a readability report that includes scores generated by seven readability formulae. I plugged in my own web site, www.martintittle.com, which got a "High School" ranking on the Blog Readability Test, and got the following scores: Kincaid: 10.8 ARI: 11.9 Coleman-Liau: 12.2 Flesch Index: 56.9 Fog Index: 13.9 Lix: 47.9 = school year 8 SMOG-Grading: 12.2 According to the info page on the site, the Flesch Index uses a 1-100 scale, with "standard English documents" averaging 60-70. SMOG-Grading and Fog Index scores are school grades. Here are the results for Linda Beale's ataxingmatter blog: Blog Readability Test: Genius readability.info scores: Kincaid: 12.3 ARI: 14.1 Coleman-Liau: 13.2 Flesch Index: 51.3 Fog Index: 15.8 Lix: 51.6 = school year 10 SMOG-Grading: 13.4 The readability.info scores for Jim Maule's mauledagain blog are: Kincaid: 9.9 ARI: 11.1 Coleman-Liau: 11.6 Flesch Index: 62.0 Fog Index: 12.8 Lix: 44.7 = school year 8 SMOG-Grading: 11.3 The web site that Jason suggested is very interesting. URLs entered into the box at the bottom of that web page get a readability report that includes scores generated by seven readability formulae.

I plugged in my own web site, http://www.martintittle.com, which got a “High School” ranking on the Blog Readability Test, and got the following scores:

Kincaid: 10.8

ARI: 11.9

Coleman-Liau: 12.2

Flesch Index: 56.9

Fog Index: 13.9

Lix: 47.9 = school year 8

SMOG-Grading: 12.2

According to the info page on the site, the Flesch Index uses a 1-100 scale, with “standard English documents” averaging 60-70. SMOG-Grading and Fog Index scores are school grades.

Here are the results for Linda Beale’s ataxingmatter blog:

Blog Readability Test: Genius

readability.info scores:

Kincaid: 12.3

ARI: 14.1

Coleman-Liau: 13.2

Flesch Index: 51.3

Fog Index: 15.8

Lix: 51.6 = school year 10

SMOG-Grading: 13.4

The readability.info scores for Jim Maule’s mauledagain blog are:

Kincaid: 9.9

ARI: 11.1

Coleman-Liau: 11.6

Flesch Index: 62.0

Fog Index: 12.8

Lix: 44.7 = school year 8

SMOG-Grading: 11.3

]]> By: Jim Maule http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/blog_reading_le.html/comment-page-1#comment-51613 Jim Maule Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:53:47 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/11/blog-readability-levels.html#comment-51613 Strange, I just entered my blog's URL (MauledAgain) and got "college" as the result. Maybe this morning's post changed things? :-) Strange, I just entered my blog’s URL (MauledAgain) and got “college” as the result. Maybe this morning’s post changed things? :-)

]]> By: Jason http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/blog_reading_le.html/comment-page-1#comment-51612 Jason Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:52:42 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/11/blog-readability-levels.html#comment-51612 http://www.readability.info/info.shtml That gives an overview of some possible metrics. http://www.readability.info/info.shtml

That gives an overview of some possible metrics.

]]> By: John Armstrong http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/blog_reading_le.html/comment-page-1#comment-51611 John Armstrong Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:15:22 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/11/blog-readability-levels.html#comment-51611 I'm looking around and I can't find anything about what that label is supposed to <em>mean</em>. I’m looking around and I can’t find anything about what that label is supposed to mean.

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